Guiding and cushioning means for slidable window panes



June 15, 1937. 5, RED 2,084,269

GUIDING AND CUSHIONING MEANS FOR SLIDABLE WINDOWPANES Filed April 20, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR d v/v5.5 61 00 fi M294 7: AToRN YJ June 15,, 1931- v J. s. REID 2,084,269

GUIDING AND CUSHIONING MEANS FOR SLIDABLE WINDOWPANES Filed April 20, 1955 2 She ets-Sheet 2 /7 FIG. 8

INVENTOR JAMES S. REID A TTORNE YJ Patented June 15,1937

PATENT OFFICE:

GUIDING AND CUSHIONING MEANS FOR SLIDABLE WINDOW PANES James S. Reid, Shaker Heights, Ohio, assignor, by mesne assignments, to The Standard Products Company, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio, a. corporation of Application April 20, 193s, Serial No. 667,061

11 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in guiding and cushioning means for slidable window panes and more particularly, to such means especially adapted for use with specially shaped window openings or window panes therefor, such as l the front windows of many present day automobiles. The Windshields of such automobiles are rearwardly inclined and by specially shaping the openings and the upper front corner portions of 10 the panes of such windows, the front edges thereof may be given a rearward inclination corresponding to that of said Windshields, with consequent improvement in the appearance of said windows.

15 To properly support and guidea vertical edge portion of such a window pane, a piece of standard form window channel, having side walls of uniform and standard depth, may be satisfactory without modiflcation'thereof or additions thereto, but to properly support and guide an inclined edge portion of such a window pane, special window guiding means may be desirable or necessary, all as will hereinafter morefully appear.

The general object, therefore, of the present.

invention is the provision, for supporting and guiding an inclined edge portion of such a window pane,. of such special guiding means and more specifically, an improved form thereof which 30 provides flat cushioning and guiding strip members which are presented and applied flatwise to the faces or side surfaces of the window pane, so that such pane may extend beyond both longitudinaledges of each such strip member, and

35 which strip members may be simply and inexpensively formed in any suitable manner, such as by providing ar'portlon "or section of a standard form window channel with suitable supplemental side walls of increased depth and so constructed 40 and arranged as to enable the inclined edge. portion of such a window pane to be properly supported and guided during its movement.

A more specific object of the present invention is the provision of such special window guiding means in which the supplemental side walls thereof are provided, in a simple and economical manner, with window-engaging cushioning means along their inner surfaces and with such cushioning effects along their outer surfaces as to effec- 50 tively prevent rattling of said supplemental side walls in the window frame groove in which they are adapted to be arranged in use thereof.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description of the inven- 55 tion proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the invention as here disclosed can 'be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing 5 from the spirit of the invention. The present invention will be readily under-- stood from the following description of two embodiments thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a portion of-a body of a present day automobile, said body having installed in the door thereof special window guiding means embodying the present invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a portion thereof, part of one of the side walls being broken away to illustrate interior construction; Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively cross sectional views thereof on the lines 33 and 4-4, Fig. 2; Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 1 and showing installed in the door special window guiding means also embodying the present invention; Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a portion of the guiding means shown in Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the sheet metal core and reinforcing wires of the standard form window channel shown in Fig. 4, other parts of such channel being omitted in Fig. 7; and Fig. 8 isa perspective view, with successive layers of the cushioning material partly broken away, of one of the flat guiding and cushioning strip members shown in Fig. 3. 3

The portion I of the automobile body shown in Fig. 1 includes a suitable door 2 provided in its upper portion with a suitable window opening 3 adapted to be opened and closed by a suitable sashless glass window pane 5 mounted in said door for vertical sliding movement.

The windshield (not shown) of said automobile and the front edge of the window opening 3 thereof are rearwardly inclined and in order to give the front 40 edge portion 1 of the top part of the window pane 5 a corresponding rearward inclination, the upper front corner portion of said window pane is specially shaped,'so that the top part of said window pane, from the point marked X, Fig. 1, to the top edge 8 thereof, is of gradually decreas ing width.

To properly support and guide the rear edge portion III of said window pane, under conditions such as illustrated in Fig. 1, a piece 25 of-stand- 5 ard form window runway or channel, having side walls of uniform and standard depth, may be satisfactory without modification thereof or additions thereto, such as the runway or channel disclosed in my prior Patent No. 1,918,666, granted July channel shaped resilient sheet metal core or body member having a base l and a pair of gen- 'erally parallel side walls I6 terminating at their' outer longitudinal edge portions in longitudinally disposed beads 11- in which are arranged longitudinally disposed re-enforcing wires l8. To give said channel suiiicient flexibility, etc., the base and side walls thereof are provided with transversely disposed slots l9, extending'from one side wall, at points adjacent the bead l1 thereof, through-the base l5, to points adjacent the head 11 of the other side wall, as clearly shown in Fig. 7. Preferably and as here shown, said base and side walls are enclosed in a suitable covering 20, of vulcanized rubber or the like, and in order to protect said covering and to further cushion the window pane 5 which this runway or channel is adapted to receive, a suitable cushioning sheet 2| of felt or the like is longitudinally arranged within said channel, said sheet lying alongside the rubber covered inner surfaces of the base and side walls thereof. As here shown, said cushioning sheet 2| is of suflicient width to enable its side edge portions to be turned or folded laterally outward around the side walls it of said runway orchannel core member, and to lie alongside the rubber covered-outer surfaces of said sidewalls, terminating adjacent the rubber covered base 15 of said channel core member.

I of the top part of said window pane 5, special window guiding means may be preferable to properly support and guide the front edge portions of the top and bottom parts of said window pane.

Such special window guiding means may be simply and economically made by providing a portion or section of a standard form windowchannel with suitable supplemental side walls .of greater depth than the side walls of said standard form channel.

In the embodiment of the invention illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, a piece 3llfof standard form window channel has an intermediate portion or section thereof provided with supplemental side walls 35,, here shown as integral parts of a sheet metal member of generally channel shape sothat it'also includes a suitable base 36. As best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, said sheet metal member is just wide enough to receive the base of the standard form channel, and as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the side walls of said sheet metal member are of varying depth, having a minimum depth substantially the same as that of said standard form channel side walls and a maximum depth substantially three times that of said standard form channel side walls. As shown in Fig. 1, this special composite channel structure of Fig. 2 is sultably arranged in the door 2 along thefront edge portion thereof, an intermediate portion or section of said structure, with its sheet metal member secured thereto in the manner hereinafter described, being arranged just below the window opening 3 and the upper portion or section of said structure lying along the front edge portion of said window opening and having a; rearward inclination corresponding thereto.

The securement of the sheet metal member to the standard form channel is effected by disconnecting the side walls of said channel from the base thereof, and then associating said disconnected base with the base 36 of said sheet metal member and also associating said disconnected over the inner longitudinal edge portions of said disconnected standard form channel side walls and over those faces thereof which are toward the window pane 5, thereby clamping said disconnected standard form channel side walls against the inner surfaces of the outer longitudinal edge portions of the side walls 35. The side walls of the composite structure thus formed are therefore provided, in a simple and economical manner, along their outer longitudinal edge portions with two opposed flat guiding and cushioning strip members for the slidable window pane 5, each such-strip member being formed, in the particular embodiments of the invention here shown, from a side wall of a standard form channel, the arrangement being such that each of said strip members has the entire area of one face thereof presented flatwise to one face or side surface of the window pane 5 which therefore may extend beyond both longitudinal edges of each such strip member, the latter offering ample Due to the inclination of the front edge portion cushioning support to the window pane during its movement.

' The formation of the elamping tongues 40 and 42 respectively provides in the side walls 35 longitudinally disposed apertures 44 and 45, the aper- 45 and thus provide along the outer surfaces of the supporting side walls 35 cushioning effects which quite satisfactorily prevent said supporting Walls from rattling, etc., in the door frame groove in which it is placed in use thereof, all as will be readily understood.

If desired, the rear edge portion of the window opening 3 may be specially shaped, such as by giving it a forwardinclination corresponding to the rearward inclination of the front edge portion of said window opening. In Fig. 5, the rear edge portion of the window opening 311. of door 2a has such a forward inclination, which is taken care of by providing the upper portion or section of the standard form window channel 25a with a sheet metal member of the same type as the one with which an intermediate portion or section of the front standard form channel 30 of Fig. 1 is provided. Asclearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the side walls 55 of the sheet metal member of this standard form channel 25a are of gradually increasing width, from bottom totop, so that the window opening 3a of Fig. 5 is not only of symmetrical appearance but also, the vertically movable rear edge portion i of the window pane 5a is more firmly, and to a greater extent, supported in the composite upper portion or section of the runway or channel 25a, the two flat guiding and cushioning strip members of the upper portion or section of such channel "it i being bent edgewlse or in their own planes to conform to the inclination of the rear edge porassociated with the base thereof and provided with longitudinally spaced apertures, said structure side walls being arranged along the inner surfaces of said supplemental side walls, ad'- Jacent the apertures thereof, and the windowengaging cushioning means of said member side walls having portions thereof projecting laterally outwardly through the apertures in said supplemental side walls, whereby cushioning effects are provided by said cushioning means along the outer surfaces of said supplemental side walls. 2. A window runway or channel, comprising a generally channel-shaped member having a base and a pair of window-pane-engaging side walls separated therefrom and' of uniform depth, and a pair of supplemental side walls of varying depth for a portion or section of said member and associated with the base thereof, the member side walls of said portion or section being secured to said supplemental side walls, adjacent the outer edge portions thereof, by means of tongues with which said supplemental side walls are provided. 3. A window runway or channel, comprising a generally channel-shaped main member having a base and a pair of window-pane engaging side walls separated therefrom, and a supplemental member forsaid main member and having a base and a pair of side walls of greater depth than the depth of said main structure member side walls, said main member side walls and said main member base being respectively secured in assembly with the sidewalls and the base of said supplemental member by means of tongues with which said supplemental member is provided.

4. A window runway or channel, comprising a generally channel-shaped main --member having a base and a pair of window-pane engaging side walls separated therefrom, and a supplemental member for said main member and having a base and a pair of side walls of greater depth than the depth of said main member side walls, said main member side walls and said main member base being respectively secured in assembly with the side walls and the base of said supplemental member by means of tongues with whichthe side walls of said supplemental member are provided. 5. A window runway or channel, comprising a generally channel-shaped window-pane-receiv'ing member having a base and a pair of windowpane-engaging side walls separated therefrom, said member side walls being provided at their outer longitudinal edgm with longitudinally dis-7-.

strip member presented flatwise to such window posed beads, and a pair of supplemental side walls for said member associated with the base thereof. said member side walls being secured to said supplemental side-walls in such manner that the longitudinally disposed beads of said member side walls lie outwardly beyond the outer longitudinal edges of said supplemental side walls.

6. In combination, a generally flat guiding and I cushioning strip member for engagement with one face of a slidable window pane, a supporting wall for such strip member, the width of said wall being greater, than the width of said strip member, the general plane of said wall and the general plane of said strip member being substantially parallel with that of said window pane, and clamping means carried by said wall and enga ing said strip member along one of its longitudinal edge portions for securing said strip member to said wall, said clamping means engaging that face of said strip member which is toward said window pane.

7. In combination, a generally flat guiding and cushioning strip member for engagement with one face of a slidable window pane, a supporting wall for such strip member. the width of said wall being greater than the width of said strip mem-- her, the general plane of said wall and the general plane of said strip 'member being substantially parallel with that of said window pane, and clamping tongues integral with'said wall and engaging said strip member along one of its longitudinal edge portions for securing said strip member to said well, said clamping tongues engaging that face of said strip member which is toward said window pane.

8. In combination, a generally flat guiding and cushioning strip member for engagement with one face of a slidable window pane, a supporting wall for such strip member, the width of said wall being greater than the width of said strip member, the general plane of said wall and the general plane of said strip member being substantially parallel with that of said window pane, and a plurality of longitudinally spaced clamps carried by said wall and engaging said strip member along one of its longitudinal edge portions for securing said strip member to said wall, said clamps engaging that face of said strip member which is toward said window pane.

9. A generally flat guiding and cushioning strip member for slidable window panes, said strip member comprising a generally flat transversely slotted sheet metal body portion, said slots extending through one of the longitudinal edges of said body portion, and yieidable cushioning means for said body portion, said strip member being adapted for application to one face of a slidable window pane with the entire area of one face of the strip member presented flatwise to such window pane for guiding and cushioning the same, whereby the window pane may extend beyond both of the longitudinal edges of the strip member.

10. A generally flat guiding and cushioning strip .member for slidable window panes. said strip member comprising a generally flat sheet metal body portion having a longitudinally .disposed bead along one of its longitudinal edges and transversely disposed slots extending from points adjaoent said bead through the other edge of said body portion, and yieldable cushioning means for said body portiomsaid strip member being adapted for application to one face of a slidable window pane with the entire, area of one face of the jacent said bead through the other edge of said area of one face of the strip member presented body portion a longitudinally disposed reinforcfiatwise to such window pane for guiding and ing wire arranged in said bead, and'yieldable cushioning the same, whereby the window pane cushioning means for said body portion, said may extend beyond both of the longitudinal edges 5 strip member being adapted for application to one of the strip member. face of a slidable window pane with the entire I JAMES S. REID.

CERTIFICA'IEOF CORRECTION. v June 15, 1937. Patent- No. 2,084,269.

JAMES S. REID.

"It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 3., first column, line 14 15, claim 1, for the word "structure" read member; line 41, claim 3, strike out "structure"; page 4, first column, line 2, claim 11, after "portion" insert a comma; and that the said Letters Patent should be read withthese corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 14th day of September, A. D. 1957.

- Henry Van Arsdale v Acting Commissioner of Patents.

jacent said bead through the other edge of said area of one face of the strip member presented body portion a longitudinally disposed reinforcfiatwise to such window pane for guiding and ing wire arranged in said bead, and'yieldable cushioning the same, whereby the window pane cushioning means for said body portion, said may extend beyond both of the longitudinal edges 5 strip member being adapted for application to one of the strip member. face of a slidable window pane with the entire I JAMES S. REID.

CERTIFICA'IEOF CORRECTION. v June 15, 1937. Patent- No. 2,084,269.

JAMES S. REID.

"It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 3., first column, line 14 15, claim 1, for the word "structure" read member; line 41, claim 3, strike out "structure"; page 4, first column, line 2, claim 11, after "portion" insert a comma; and that the said Letters Patent should be read withthese corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 14th day of September, A. D. 1957.

- Henry Van Arsdale v Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

